Clinical and Professional Practice

Integrated Clinical and Professional Practice is delivered though all six years of the MBBS programme and makes up around 20% of the MBBS curriculum and its assessments. The aims of the Clinical and Professional Practice programme are to:

understand medicine as an integrated whole

understand how theory and understanding of health and disease link to practice

make evidenced-based clinical decisions that promote person-centred practice in a rapidly evolving healthcare system

integrate knowledge of biomedical and human sciences to enhance your interpretation of the patient’s own narrative, physical signs and social data

develop and demonstrate your professionalism through commitment to the duties of a doctor, an understanding of patient safety and the application of ethical and legal principles.

The Clinical and Professional Practice (CPP) ‘Core Values’ aspire to create new doctors that are:

Mental Health is an overarching theme of the programme designed to enable UCL graduates to have a better understanding of mental health and be more able to help those with mental health needs, regardless of which specialty they ultimately pursue

Social Determinants of Health

Health, disease and healthcare have important social and economic origins and consequences

Professionalism

Understand the contemporary thinking and frameworks about what constitutes professionalism and professional practice

Ethics and Law

Develop core skills and an orientation for effective communication, ethical practice, and working within the framework of the law and professional guidance

Clinical Communication

Effective communication. Recognise workplace based teaching around real patient encounters as a process of integrative thinking